Washing machine



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Patented Nov. l5, i923.,

entre arras WASHING MACHINE.

Application filed .Tune 3,

To all to 710m may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY A. KAUFLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Charleroi, in the county of Washington and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in lashing Machines, of which the following is a specifiw cation.

This invention relates to washing machines, and more particularly. to a machine for washing clothes and similar' articles.

One of the main objects of the invention is to provide a machine of simple construction and operation which will exert a combined rubbing and compressing effect upon the articles being` washed so as to force the Washing solution through the same in such a manner as to readily loosen and remove the dirt particles. A further object is to provide a machine having means by which smaller articles ma7 be washed separately from and simultaneously with larger articles. Further objects will appear from the Ydetailed description.

In the drawings Figure l is a central longitudinal vert-ical section through the machine.

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section through the machine.

The machine includes a tub or casing l on the inner face of which are disposed a plurality of transverse rubbing members or ribs 2, these ribs being disposed in concentric relation to an operating shaft 3 rockably mounted in bearingblocks 4 secured on the upper edges of the side walls of the casing. main rubber 5 is secured on shaft 3, the bottom wall 5 of this rubber being disposed substantially concentric with shaft 3 and having a plurality of transversely eX- tending eorrugations forming ribs 5b between which are slots 5 for establishing communication bctwen the interior of casing l and the interior of rubber 5. A supplemental rubber 6 rests loosely upon shaft 3 within rubber 5, this supplemental rubber being provided with a slot 6a for reception of the shaft. The underface 6 of supplemental rubber 6 is corrugated to provide a rubbing surface and is curved on a greater are than the arc of curvature of bottom 5a of rubber 5,y This supplemental rubber is further provided with an upwardly projecting stem 7 which is positioned to strike cross-bars 8 which connect bows 9 secured on the sides of the easing and. extendnl 1922. Serial No. 565,559.

ing over bearing blocks 4C. The stem 7 and bars 8 cao-operate to limit movement of the supplemental rubber in either direction.

The ribs 2 are separated into two series, one in each end portion of easing l, and a rubber l() is rockably mounted in the casing between the series of ribs, this roller bein provided on its upper portion with a plurality of radiating ribs or blades l1 extendmgV transversely of the casing. In using the Lachine the larger articles are placed in casing l, the smaller articles being placed within the supplemental rubber 5, it being understood that a quantity of washing solution is placed within the casing, the level of the washing solution extending above the lower portion of the supplemental rubber. The operating shaft 3 is then rocked by means of a cranlr l2 secured on one end of the shaft, or in any other suitable or preferred manner. This imparts rocking movement to rubber 5 which serves, in conjunction with ribs 2 of the casing, to compress and rub the mass of clothes, the mass being moved downwardly over one set of the ribs onto the blades or ribs 1l of rubber 10 which then turns or rocks so as to throw the mass of clothes against the other set of ribs thus forcing the washing solution through the clothes. This operation is repeated and reversed as the shaft is rocked in the opposite direction. This serves to subject the clothes to a combined rubbing and squeezing or compressing action which serves to effectually loosen and remove the dirt particles. The smaller articles are placed within the rubber 5 where the7 are subjected, during the rocking of shaft 3 to the combined rubbing and compressing action of ribs 5b and the supplemental rubber 6 which serves to eifectually loosen and remove the dirt particles. This provides very simple and efiicient means whereby the smaller articles of clothing may be washed separately from and simultaneously with the other articles, all of the articles being subjected to a combined rubbing and compressing action which serves to quickly and efectually remove the dirt particles.

As will be understood, changes in details of construction and arrangement of parts of the invention may be resorted to without departing from the field and scope of the same, and I intend to include all such variations, as fall within the scope of the appended claims, in this application in which a preferred form only oi' my invention `s disclosed.

W'hat clziiin is: Y

In a niaehine of the character described, a casing, a plurality of ribs Within the casing and exteiidintgr transversely thereof, a shaft rockahly .mounted transversely of und extending through the casing, e nniin rubber fixed to said sha-'ft and lie-ving its lower Wall transversely corrugated und disposed substantially concentric Withsaid ribs, said inein rubber being,` iiither provided With Y ineens 'lor limitingl iiioveinent of said suppleinentiil rubber in either direction and nieans to rock siiid'sliei't. v

In testimony whereof I :iiiix niy signature.

. HENRY A. KAUF E. 

